<b>Prospective Rehabilitation System in the Declining Birth Rate and the Aging Society</b>

Abstract

The number of stroke patients has increased year by year in many countries, as the population ages and fewer babies are born. Most of stroke patients require a rehabilitation after the onset of stroke. Many researchers and companies in most of countries have been studying new rehabilitation systems. The systems include the approach of Brain Machine Interface (BMI), rehabilitation supported robot and so on. It seems that those systems target at higher socioeconomic group in wealthy countries. Since the stroke patients are not necessarily wealthy, it is necessary to make other solution for the non-wealthy groups. Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy (BRA) in Japan have been constructing the new rehabilitation system with easy and cheap devices, which is so-called "Takizawa method". The proposed method enable that the burden of PT will decrease by contrast of the traditional method, since one physical therapist (PT) treats several rehabilitation patient. In the future rehabilitation, each patient will select a favorite solution among many rehabilitation systems.